Google to Unite Mapping Mashups

jihadist writes "Hoping to make it even easier to turn its online maps into collages of local information, Google Inc. is introducing tools that will stitch together applications from a hodgepodge of Web sites."

From the Horse's Mouth

[molo]

Here is the documentation on mapplets [google.com].

-molo

Re:Mapquest vs Google Maps

[EMeta]

In the states at least, Mapquest's directions engine is slightly better than Google Maps'. Usually they're identical, but when they differ, 95% of the time Mapquest is better. But it's so much less pretty, & doesn't integrate business or address search as well, so I still primarily use Google's, myself.

And how exactly is this news?

[jolyonr]

This was announced at the Google Developer Day back in May, and has been pretty much public knowledge since then.

Jolyon

Re:Apartment hunting

[corbettw]

Someone already made this, it mashes up the data from Craigslist apartment listings with a map from Google Maps. Housing Maps [housingmaps.com]. It's pretty cool, when I stumbled on it I had one of those why-didn't-I-think-of-that moments.

Direct link to Houston listings. [housingmaps.com]